The Works of President Edwards - Containing: I. Dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World; II. Doctrine of Original Sin Defended; III. Observations Upon Particular Passages of Scripture; IV. Theological Questions #225497

An ultimate end is that which the agent seeks in what he does, for its own sake: That he has respect to, as what he loves, values and takes pleasure in on its own account, and not merely as a means ofa further end. As when a man loves the taste of some particular sort of fruit, and is at pains and cost to obtain it, for the sake of the pleasure of that taste, which he values upon its own account, as he loves his own pleasure and not merely for the sake of any other good, which he supposes his enjoying that pleasure will be the means of.